Is it time to change my C: drive? It's at 80% health right now, up to what health should I be safe?

[bxrzerker]

 

Getting really scared. I don't want a C: drive to die on me. I've amassed such a huge collection of downloaded apps, games, bookmarks, etc. along with lots of other techy tweaks done which would all be ruined if this drive died on me. I have so many things in my path variable, so many packages installed, just thinking about it failing makes my skin shiver ;(

[MiszS]

1 minute ago, bxrzerker said:

 

Getting really scared. I don't want a C: drive to die on me. I've amassed such a huge collection of downloaded apps, games, bookmarks, etc. along with lots of other techy tweaks done which would all be ruined if this drive died on me. I have so many things in my path variable, so many packages installed, just thinking about it failing makes my skin shiver 

Not sure how you fit all of that on 20gb, but the drive should be fine for now. All drives eventually fail, so you should get an external back up drive to just copy ur system into it, that's the most reliable way to do it

[Brando212]

That's a WD Green drive if I'm not mistaken. so even if the drive is fine, if you do decide to swap it, you could easily get a better performing drive, even if you're still limited to SATA.

[Monkey Dust]

Any data that you really don't want to lose should be stored in at least two places. The drive probably isn't on the verge of death, but still back up your data.

[Eigenvektor]

40 minutes ago, bxrzerker said:

I've amassed such a huge collection of downloaded apps, games, bookmarks, etc. along with lots of other techy tweaks done which would all be ruined if this drive died on me.

Any data that is not backed up is not important. In other words: Stop worrying and backup your data. Any drive can die at any time, regardless of health.

[Dillpickle23422]

18 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Any data that is not backed up is not important. In other words: Stop worrying and backup your data. Any drive can die at any time, regardless of health.

Yep. Even brand new drives can fail within hours. Had 2 different WD Blue drives fail on me within weeks of installing them. Could have been shipping damage, or just bad drives really.

[Poinkachu]

1 hour ago, bxrzerker said:

 

Getting really scared. I don't want a C: drive to die on me. I've amassed such a huge collection of downloaded apps, games, bookmarks, etc. along with lots of other techy tweaks done which would all be ruined if this drive died on me. I have so many things in my path variable, so many packages installed, just thinking about it failing makes my skin shiver ;(

Buy a new drive, buy an adapter to USB for it (optional)

Clone the old drive into the new one.

Swap the old with new one.

Problem solved.

 

[kokosnh]

max P/E is 71, average P/E is 35, so not so bad. It should do 100 (but the controller can fail anytime, so you never knew. You always have to have backup).

The bigger problem is that you do have some uncorrectable errors and bad blocks (that can indicate that some part of NAND did fail)

Ps. the 80% is just the TBW count for that drive (it can fail earlier, or later, it's just that the manufacturer guarantees you should be able to use it up to TBW) But well that's not always the case, and they have to replace the SSD under warranty.